Meanings of cripple blow in English

It's best to move in with a sudden, crippling blow.

The floods have also inundated crop-producing areas, dealing a crippling blow to the agricultural-based economy.

Even at that position he could tell they had dealt a crippling blow to the enemy.

Redman chose his moment, and delivered a crippling blow to Slape's knee, the weak leg, he guessed.

Too many high times together: it always dealt a crippling blow to a friendship in the long run.

Also tomorrow, a vote fraud case that could deliver a crippling blow to the six-party coalition government will end.

Take them out of commission, find out what they know, and you strike a crippling blow to the insurgency.

The impacts came so rapidly that the dynamo had no time to recover before the next crippling blow arrived.

He defended himself vigorously, dealing crippling blows to right and left, and strewing the quarter-deck with the slain and wounded.

Holly could only watch helplessly as the human took careful aim and delivered a series of crippling blows to the stricken creature.

Others wonder at the Belgian political system's extraordinary resilience in the face of yet another crippling blow to its rock bottom credibility.

"And that's how you get inside, get close enough to deliver the first, crippling blow."

The government-filed lawsuit against the Cambodia National Rescue party (CNRP) is seen as a crippling blow for free and fair polls.

The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) has slammed MTN's comments and said that ad-blocking could deal a crippling blow to online businesses.

Leaving the European Union was supposed to deal a crippling blow to London's position in global finance, prompting a mass exodus of jobs and business.

Experts say EgyptAir's doomed flight -whether caused by a mechanical failure or attack -has struck another crippling blow to an already struggling economy.